People are going to steal images no matter what but if you read the terms of service on most social networking sites you will find a statement like this "When you upload Your Upload Information via the Web Sites, you irrevocably grant to Company, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license containing, without limitation, all right, title and interest in Your Upload Information, including, without limitation, all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade identities, copyrights, trade secrets, logos, domain names, know-how, source code and object code, mask-work rights, inventions, moral rights, author's rights, algorithms, rights in packaging, goodwill and other intellectual property and proprietary rights whatsoever in Your Upload Information. You further agree that Company, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners and the directors, officers, employees, licensees and other representatives of each of them will have the unfettered right throughout the universe, in perpetuity, without any credit or compensation to you, to use, reuse, modify, alter, display, archive, publish, sub-license, perform, reproduce, disclose, transmit, broadcast, post, sell, translate, create derivative works of, distribute and use for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional purposes, any of Your Upload Information or portions of Your Upload Information, and your name, voice, likeness and other identifying information, in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now known or developed in the future for any purposes whatsoever including, without limitation, developing, manufacturing and marketing products" copied from CBS terms of service for this site. So the real news here is if you post your image here CBS can use, sell, alter or whatever with no legal need or moral obligation to compensate you. enjoy pjc
Nothing's sacred, not even personal photos of your family. That's why I deleted all of my albums from the web-sites that claim to be secure and invite you to store your photos online. Well, someone hacked into my family album on SnapFish and posted two of their own freaky, face-pierced, tatooed, spiked hair photos. From that day, I won't put anything out there for unsavory characters to hack into and do as they wish.
From the article, "The Smiths and photographer Gina Kelly hadn't authorized anyone to use the pictures. Kelly said she has asked a professional photographers' organization to help figure out how her image wound up in Prague. " ____________________
Gee whizz: do you think that with the internet a photo could go around the world and be pinched by anyone?
What the he11 am I thinking, of course the internet is only available in the USA!
Thats great - reminds me of a story about 10 years ago. One of the top-notch European hotel chains, can't which one, had a lovely photo of a couple enjoying a quiet lunch in their restaurant. It was published in thousands of flyers/ads/etc. Well it turned out that the photographer had snapped a photo of a high-level executive and his mistress!!!! He obviously didn't get their permission, and needless to say, the hotel chain was in major hot water.
This article is a crystal clear reason why anyone that uses digital technology must understand the social norm of Responsibility 2.1C!
What ever you do on a digital device is public and personal, despite what you may think!
For More Information about this vital social norm at the acclaimed Institute for Responsible Online and Cell-Phone Communication's website at www.iroc2.org
The ironic thing is that even if it was 'computer-generated' (as the store owner claims he thought it was - which I highly doubt) the photo would still be a copyrighted image and to use it without permission is against international copyright law.
Again, this kind of thing happens all the time. It's just that this time the copyright infringer was caught red-handed. He likely knew what he was doing was illegal - but almost are these people caught and it's nearly impossible to prosecute.
JUST GOES TO PROVE THAT NOTHING IS SAFE ANYWHERE. BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING AND SO IS EVERYONE ELSE. Posted by jeannettelj at 9:04 AM : Jun 11, 2009
Actually, it proves no such thing. The image was posted to the web and someone in another country liked it, copied it and used it for their business. No mystery here folks, it happens all the time. I'm an illustrator and photographer and more than once I have found my images being used without authorization. This is one:
http://lifeinthev.com/
That's my photo of the White Tanks. In fact, that's me _in_ the photo.
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Gee whizz: do you think that with the internet a photo could go around the world and be pinched by anyone?
What the he11 am I thinking, of course the internet is only available in the USA!
What ever you do on a digital device is public and personal, despite what you may think!
For More Information about this vital social norm at the acclaimed Institute for Responsible Online and Cell-Phone Communication's website at www.iroc2.org
Again, this kind of thing happens all the time. It's just that this time the copyright infringer was caught red-handed. He likely knew what he was doing was illegal - but almost are these people caught and it's nearly impossible to prosecute.
Posted by jeannettelj at 9:04 AM : Jun 11, 2009
Actually, it proves no such thing. The image was posted to the web and someone in another country liked it, copied it and used it for their business. No mystery here folks, it happens all the time. I'm an illustrator and photographer and more than once I have found my images being used without authorization. This is one:
http://lifeinthev.com/
That's my photo of the White Tanks. In fact, that's me _in_ the photo.